{"product_id":"the-bluffers-guide-to-music-bluffers-guides","title":"The Bluffer's Guide to Music (Bluffer's Guides)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern music\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eModern music is that which is written in an idiom that came just after the period that any given music-lover was last able to understand.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeethoven\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeethoven is regarded as a public company in which a number of people have shares and it is important to know how many shares each of them holds. Thus one talks of Klemperer's Beethoven, Karajan's Beethoven, Solti’s Beethoven, Bernstein's Beethoven and, after a bit of research, Furtwangler's Beethoven—those are main shareholders with Klemperer holding a working majority.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAny suggestion that you can take Bach as good clean fun can earn you a very nasty reputation. You must take Bach seriously or not at all.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMahler\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIt was suddenly realized that Mahler had not written big long boring symphonies of the Brahms type which you have to listen to carefully from beginning to end in order not to miss the themes, but had, in fact, simply strung together hundreds of attractive little tunes, and it was possible to go into a coma for a lot of the symphony and still get involved when you came to again.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBartok\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBartok is great stuff for people with the kind of mentality that takes naturally to chess and Ximenes crosswords.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/peter-gammond-books\"\u003ePeter Gammond\u003c\/a\u003e (all their books in stock)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre:\u003c\/strong\u003e Humour, Music\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2008\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Oval Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781906042165\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Oval Books","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £31.00","offer_id":47918928756913,"sku":"SB-1906042160-C4","price":31.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1906042160.jpg?v=1789716851","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-bluffers-guide-to-music-bluffers-guides","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}